The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 351

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Part 2, Chapter 149

The swamp was deep.

What initially reached my calves and thighs later touched my chin, and for the last few minutes I had to advance with even the top of my head submerged in the dark, murky, sticky swamp.

Thud, thud. When I stepped on solid ground, shaking off the mud covering my entire body, a long shadow that blocked the light of the Milky Way reached my feet.

‘Who could be in a place like this…’

After wiping my eyes and confirming the owner of the shadow, I couldn’t hide my surprise.

Natasha.

My precious friend Natasha, who couldn’t possibly exist in this place, stood there biting her lips with eyes filled with sorrow.

She didn’t mind that dirty filth had splattered on her stiff, wrinkle-free white uniform that looked brand new. She simply approached me closely, carefully grasped my sleeve, and pleaded.

“Come back, Daisy.”

Her tearful eyes were red and melancholy, unlike the usual Natasha.

“How can a person be so heartless? I owe you such a great debt. A debt that couldn’t be repaid even if I spent 10 full years repaying it. If you leave, I’ll be consumed by guilt and suffer… Why do you keep trying to leave us? Do you hate me that much?”

“…”

“Tell me. Are the bonds of the past no longer important to you? Are we no longer needed?”

I gazed intently into Natasha’s eyes.

She really seems like Natasha.

No, I thought she might actually be real.

This is the Pantheon. A transcendent space where all time and space are mixed together and connected to the universe. Natasha’s resentment toward me might have materialized to criticize my choice and my irresponsibility.

Natasha looked up at me with moist eyes, as if hoping I would wipe away her tears.

So I wiped away her tears. Then Natasha’s face brightened.

“You understand my heart?”

Of course.

But I have a long way to go, so there’s nothing I can do except wipe away her tears. I turned my back on the greatly disappointed Natasha and continued walking.

Land where the thorns of withered dead trees stretched long above my head and below my feet.

From somewhere on that land, a familiar cry echoed.

Screech-

A gray hawk that had been soaring through the sky landed on a nearby tree. The old man standing beneath it, Bluebell, asked me with a hollow laugh.

“Where are you going?”

I continued walking while carefully observing Bluebell’s behavior, wondering if I might suddenly faint again while speaking.

“Shouldn’t you carry on the druid’s will? You can’t abandon this poor gray hawk… She’ll wait only for you until she dies. Endlessly.”

Chirp-

Ash’s beautiful eyes looked at me sadly.

Would that happen… Would Ash wait only for me her whole life?

I want to ask her not to do that, but I don’t have the luxury. I passed by Ash and Bluebell.

At the end of the long thorn tree path, a man was standing. It was the Weatherwax Baroness.

He looked at me with his hands clasped behind his back, then smiled faintly the moment I passed by his side.

“You have no hesitation. As always.”

That was the end of it.

I finally arrived at the lava region. Flames of colors that made my insides feel hot just by looking at them, with no desire to swim in them, burst forth like fountains.

I found softly cooled lava and stepped on it piece by piece as I moved forward.

On top of a pitch-black stone mountain that rose between the gaps, Lupus was sitting. He looked down at me with coldly hardened eyes.

“Going away again?”

The corner of his mouth rising with sarcasm reminded me of the day I first met the Sword Master, not Lupus.

“You have no sense of responsibility. Always selfish. You don’t think about the people left behind. The memories with you… have become trauma that will make me wander in nightmares forever.”

Is that so.

But Lupus is strong enough. Someday he would surely overcome many more walls and even conquer the trauma remaining at the bottom.

The noise of the lava region was too loud to shout and communicate. I waved my hand lightly and stepped on the next lava.

When the heat of the constantly boiling lava began to feel somewhat less intense.

I made eye contact with a man at the edge of the lava region that had cooled much more solidly than before.

In his greatly disheartened red eyes, I couldn’t see any expectation or affection toward me. That fact was quite shocking to me as well, making my mouth bitter enough to slow my steps.

“You always… disappoint me.”

Raphael had a tired face.

“Am I such a worthless and insignificant existence to you? If you think of me that way, why, why did you call me your friend?”

Vivid anger. Disappointment. Frustration.

“I bitterly regret accepting you as one of my people, Andert.”

Then he turned his back on me and walked away.

I wanted to grab Raphael’s shoulder. I wanted to apologize, saying it wasn’t like that, I’m sorry, and rebuild the broken trust.

Perhaps Raphael might reluctantly take my hand. He was that kind of person.

But Raphael… I have something I must do.

I continued walking, stepping on the coldly hardened ground. The scorching air of the lava quickly receded, and before I knew it, a bitterly cold wind began to blow, and a magnificent blizzard obscured my vision.

I climbed the sloped snowy field.

I hadn’t walked very long, but I was getting out of breath. My vision was dark, and the falling snow was considerable, making it hard to see.

Even in the midst of this, the boy’s crying was clearly audible.

My sibling crouched alone in the darkness. The crying of small, young Andert.

“Don’t go.”

Andert was wearing a coat that was too thin and shabby to endure this harsh cold.

“You know. If you leave too, I’ll be alone.”

As if he would be buried in this snow at any moment.

“If you abandon me like this… blood relative or not, I’ll curse you until I die… I’ll curse you more than Mother, more than Father!”

Seeing him trembling and screaming, I shook my head.

“Acting spoiled when you’re all grown up.”

“Don’t be ridiculous! Even if you talk like that, the fact that you abandoned me doesn’t change…”

“You’re not at the age to hold hands and go eat Mother’s tomato stew anymore, Andert.”

If it had been Garrosh’s face, I would have given him a knock on the head. Since I couldn’t bring myself to use my fist on this face, I roughly tousled Andert’s hair.

“Get up and go down. It’s cold.”

“No! Stop, Daisy!”

I passed by my sibling and climbed the mountain again.

“I said stop!”

I diligently moved my feet toward the summit, not knowing when I would arrive.

“Come back, you damn sister!”

The shouts growing more distant.

The cold becoming harsher.

Breathing becoming more difficult.

I walked endlessly.

Is there an end to this path? Will I be able to reach the summit of this mountain? Will Lu wait for me until I reach the door… Countless thoughts I couldn’t even remember struck and passed through me.

Then finally.

I arrived.

“…I’m here.”

I can see it, the door.

Unlike in the desert, a door with a proper handle was standing quietly on the silent snowfield.

I dragged my heavy body toward the door. My legs wouldn’t move well. It seemed my right foot had gotten frostbite.

Someone whispered to me.

“Why didn’t you look back?”

I don’t know.

“You can’t not know yourself. Why didn’t you look back?”

Because I have something I must do.

“Aren’t you afraid of death?”

I’m more afraid of Lu dying.

“You’ll never be able to return. You’ll greatly regret today’s choice someday.”

Maybe so. That’s how all desires are.

“….”

The Door I approached was large.

The moment I grasped the Door’s handle without hesitation.

“That’s enough now.”

“….”

I stopped breathing.

“The suffering ends here.”

A voice tinged with a faint smile, the voice of the one I love endlessly, came from behind me.

“That’s sufficient. Look at me, Daisy. With your persistence and longing, I’ve returned from death. Because of your earnest desire, through your sacrifice that’s more than I deserve….”

Lu.

“Come here. Before I go over there and embrace you until you burst. You’re hurting much more than you think too, aren’t you?”

“….”

“…Please, Daisy. Please let me feel you, let me kiss every part of your body.”

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